Murphy gas station at Walmart in Cabot, Arkansas, sold winning ticket in 2025 Christmas Eve Powerball. Final sales pushed the total to $1.817 billion.

Bolstered by a Powerball jackpot that reached $1.8 billion and a lottery player won with a ticket purchased in Cabot, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery raised $12 million for college scholarships in December -- up from $10 million in December 2024.

A display panel advertises tickets for a Powerball drawing at a convenience store, Nov. 7, 2022, in Renfrew, Pa. A $1.8 billion winning Powerball ticket was sold at an Arkansas gas station, the second largest Powerball winning in the game’s history.

Murphy gas station at Walmart in Cabot, Arkansas, sold winning ticket in 2025 Christmas Eve Powerball. Final sales pushed the total to $1.817 billion.

Double-check those Powerball tickets because the $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot ticket sold in Cabot, Arkansas remains unclaimed!

Murphy gas station at Walmart in Cabot, Arkansas, sold winning ticket in 2025 Christmas Eve Powerball. Final sales pushed the total to $1.817 billion

A single winning ticket was sold for Powerball’s Christmas Eve jackpot of $1.817 billion — the second-largest U.S. lottery prize ever. The winner, who has not been publicly identified, bought the lucky ticket at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Christmas came early for someone who purchased a Powerball ticket at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, worth more than $1.8 billion. The lone winner in Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing matched all five winning numbers and the Powerball to capture the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.

The top stories that grabbed Arkansas headlines in 2025 spanned a wide range of topics, taking Arkansas Democrat-Gazette readers across the state to a gas station in Cabot, a state park in western Arkansas,